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There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.

Sometimes when you're working on a period piece, there's this tendency to be nostalgic about the period and do everything superglamorous, which can end up looking cliche.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

'Ambulatory' is my favorite word to use because it never gets a laugh.